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The nightly build:
* Parallels, the popular Mac software that lets you run other OSes as virtual machines, keeps [cranking out the free betas][1]. Parallels Beta3 features improved USB 2.0 support, improved coherence mode and more.
[1]: http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/beta_testing/ "Parallels Beta3"
* Good old Mainstream Media outlet Reuters [ran an article][2] today on RSS calling it the "coolest thing you've never heard of when it comes to the Internet." Rather depressingly the article cites media analyst group Forrester who claim that less than 2 percent of internet users use RSS.
[2]: http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyid=2006-12-29T185423Z_01_N29192014_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLUMN-PLUGGEDIN.xml&src=rss "Reuters on RSS"
* I [picked on][4] Google earlier today, but there was one bright spot today for the search giant, Hitwise [reports][3] that traffic to Google's Blog search service now surpasses that of Technorati.
[3]: http://weblogs.hitwise.com/leeann-prescott/2006/12/google_blog_search_surpasses_t.html "Google Blog Search beats Technorati"
[4]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/12/googles_bad_hai.html "Google has a bad hair week"
* Why writing down passwords is stupid. CBS 5 in SF [reports][5] that Unabomber Ted Kaczynski wrote his journals using code that security expert Bruce Schneier calls "the most complex cipher the FBI has seen since World War II." Neither the FBI nor the NSA could crack the code until they found among Kaczynski's notebooks a page entitled "Unscrambling Sequence." Doh!
[5]: http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_363002905.html "FBI cracks Unabomber security code"
* And finally, let's close out the year with this [incredibly creepy image][6] of the world's largest superconducting magnet. It looks like something out the machine city in the Matrix crossed with the big spider in Arachnophobic. Shiver.
[6]: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/12/29/worlds_largest_super.html "BoingBoing on the world's largest superconducting magnet"
Happy New Year everyone, see you Tuesday.
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